Where Luongo Fails, Steven Succeeds

Roberto Luongo went into Wednesday night's game against the Avalanche with three consecutive shut outs. Hoping to set a franchise best shut out streak Luongo showed why he's Vancouver's best player by stopping all 16 shots fired against him in the first period.

Going into the second period, it looked as if Luongo would deny every shot that came at him; that was until there was a mad scramble in front of the net. With Louie sprawled across the ice, the puck somehow found it's way onto Svatos' stick who then roofed it up and over the down Captain. This ended Luongo's shut out streak at 242 minutes and 36 seconds, enough to rewrite the franchise record, but not enough to record the fourth consecutive shut out.

That really is quite pathetic. I, on the other hand, pulled through to continue my shut out streak at a magnificent 6 straight games. That's right ladies and gentlemen, that's 6 straight games of scoreless hockey on my part. That's 360 minutes of regulation time, and approximately 8 minutes of overtime as two of the games went into extra time. Luongo could only wish he had my streak.

In the sixth game of the season, the Sharks faced off against the ever so eager to hit Cubz. In one of the highest scoring games of the season, I stuck with my guns, played text book hockey and remained pointless in the season for the sixth straight game.

We started off with a short roster as some of the team could not make it to the game. This meant that there weren't any set lines, and so the feared Chow Dang Chen line was rarely out together. Despite not being on the same line, Chow was able to tip in a point shot off of one of our defensemen not named Chen.

As mentioned it was a high scoring affair with the Sharks leading 6-4 in the third, but somehow managed to squander the lead to let the Cubz back in with under two minutes to go in the third. Unfortunately over-time did nothing except to lengthen my scoreless streak, and the game ended in the anti-climax tie of 6-6.

The Cubz were a physical team who were itching to hit any chance they got, but for the most part the Sharks matched in terms of intensity. Where on one occasion the puck was in the Cubz zone for well over two minutes straight.

Despite the failures of Roberto Luongo to continue his shut out streak, I predict that my shut out streak will go beyond what is countable. During the Canucks Avalanche game, Chris Cuthbert commented that Adam Foote was on an 82 game scoreless drought, which I intend to shatter beyond recognition. Instead of forward, maybe I should play goal next game, then at least a goaless streak would be something to brag about.